A Community Growing Initiative
Final Giveaways!
This Saturday sees us giving away the last of our FREE seed potatoes at two events, one in Aberdeen and one in Huntly. The first one is at Huntly as part of Deveron Projects Town is the Garden project. There are 8 varieties that…
More varieties for Seedy Sunday on March 18th
Three additional varieties that you can pick up for free at Seedy Sunday tomorrow at Aden Country Park, courtesy of a kind donation from Grampian Growers. Hermes is a round white skin and white flesh maincrop variety. Especially good for chips. Gemson is a…
We would like to thank the enormous generosity of Grampian Growers who donated an additional 175kg of seed potatoes to our project. In addition to more Cara, we now have three additional varieties to offer – Gemson, Nieta and Hermes. We will post some…
Our first give away event is on Tuesday!
One Seed Forward will be at the ACA Climate Café, Waterstone’s, Union Street, Aberdeen on Tuesday March 6th. Doors open at 6.30pm. We will be doing a talk on Community Growing in the North East, and have 100 bags of free seed potatoes to…
Our last two varieties for this season are Casablanca and Charlotte. Casablanca, shown on the left, is a first early that can be ready in less than 10 weeks from planting. Round with white flesh and skin, it has a range of cooking uses…
Where to collect your free seed potatoes
We are pleased to let you know where you can pick up your free seed potatoes for the coming growing season. Details of the varieties we have will be on our website oneseedforward.co.uk in the next few days. We hope to have a selection…
Time to tell you about a new variety that we are giving away this year. Red Emmalie is an early maincrop oval tuber, with red skin and red flesh. It is ideal for mashing and boiling and will retain its colour, making a great…
Today’s seed potato we have for you is another favourite from last year, Lady Balfour. This is an early maincrop oval tuber, with cream skin and pale yellow flesh, and was a good cropper last season. It is named after Eve Balfour who inspired…
We are excited to be giving away this speciality heritage potato this year – Violetta. It has purple skin with purple flesh and is an early maincrop variety. Boil, mash or bake, these oval tubers will retain their colour if cooked with the skins…
